Author Archive: Efren Toscano

With the economy in a downturn and the summer heat rising, it’s hard to think of others. It’s especially difficult when it takes some people over $100 to fill up their gas tanks, but the charity MEND (Meet Each Need with Dignity – www.mendpoverty.org) is leading the way with events like their recent ‘Mending Poverty…continue reading.

An awesome contest just launched on Tonemine.com. Using their web-based mash-up tool, Tonemine and DJ Tutor, the YouTube DJ sensation, personally invite you to take the title of The Ultimate Ringtone DJ! “Battle of the Ringtone DJs” is the first ever ringtone contest for DJs, turntablists, MCs or your all around music lover! Using ToneMine.com’s…continue reading.

About a few months ago, Techzulu covered a company lcoal called Phonevite, a mass messaging service that tells your friends, colleagues or anyone with a phone announcements. The mass messaging space is interesting because telling your friends about events, news and etc is more personal than alerting them by email. That’s so 90’s. By using…continue reading.

As we get ready for Twiistup 4, one of Southern California’s Premier event for showing off your company to the tech world, we’re doing a round robin of interviews of all the showoffs. One of the companies that we covered earlier is Tools to Life. To recap, Tools to Life is a life coaching social…continue reading.

Phonevite is one of the Twiistup 4 showoffs

Here”s a *raw* video of my interview with Sarah Lacy from last night”s Mixergy Drinks 2.0 event [1]. It was shot by a guest on a little camera, while Tech Zulu [2] filmed using their professional equipment. The audio and video on this version are pretty bad. When Tech Zulu posts the official version, I”ll…continue reading.

We caught up with MusicShake about their up and coming showoff at Twiistup 4, which is on July 17th, 2008 at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica, CA.  Check them out below and see what’s in store for Twiistup 4. You could also check out their first interview with TechZulu by clicking here.

GRP Partners is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles that also has investment partners in London and Paris. They focus on early-stage (A and B rounds) in technology, digital media, retail and finance. GRP funded Mark’s first 2 companies (BuildOnline and Koral) and has worked with them for 8 years before joining.  …continue reading.

Tomorrow night, Mixergy will be hosting the next Drinks 2.0 in Los Angeles.  Andrew Warner will be interviewing Sara Lacy ‘Live’ from the event with the help of your friendly neighborhood TechZulu Crew.  Here is an excerpt from the Mixergy blog from earlier today:  “When I started emailing the invitation last week, the guest list…continue reading.

And the answer that RealD Co-Founder and President Joshua Greer gives is a resounding, “YES!” We talked to Joshua at the Beverly Hills offices of RealD about everything from 3D’s beginnings, a la the stereoscope and stereographic cards (he has a set in his offices that he gladly shows off) to the latest 3D film…continue reading.